Cuerden

Coordinates: 53°42′22″N 2°39′36″W / 53.706°N 2.660°W / 53.706; -2.660

Cuerden is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, England. It is situated between Bamber Bridge and Leyland, and has a population of 77. A new civil parish has now been formed called Clayton-le-Woods West and Cuerden. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 4,256.

History

The name speculatively derives from the Welsh cerdin, the plural of cerdinen, "rowan", although the nearby Cuerdale derives from an Anglo-Saxon personal name.

The manor was given to Vivian Molyneux by Roger de Poitou and devolved to the Banastres, Charnocks, Langtons, and Fleetwoods. The manor house, Cuerden Hall, is a country house begun in the 1717 on the site of a 17th-century house, and extended between 1816-19 by Lewis Wyatt.

During the Industrial Revolution two cotton mills were built by the river by William Clayton and William Eccles and employed more than 700 persons in 1848.

St Saviour's Church was built in 1836–37 to a design by the architect Edmund Sharpe.

Andrew Cuerden

Andrew Cuerden is a Latin dancer. Born in Zimbabwe, and growing up in South Africa, Cuerden moved to England to further his dance career in 1996. Dancing with partner Hanna Haarala they reached 4th place in the UK amateur Latin rankings, before turning pro on February 5. He, along with Haarala was chosen to tutor a celebrity in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing - partnered with Jaye Jacobs he was eliminated in week 2, but performed in many professional demonstrations.

Previously ranked 25th in the world professional Latin rankings with professional partner Hanna Haarala, and 2nd in the Finnish Latin Rankings as well as reaching the Quarter Final of “The International Championships” Professional Latin 2006. Andrew and Hanna retired from competing in May 2008. They remain dance partners and now teach in and around London as well as perform their Latin Emotion Cabaret performance around the world.

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